Sr. Engineering Manager, Distributed Cloud

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation. 
 

Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

Life at F5 is never dull. We are constantly identifying industry trends and disruptions, then innovating to get ahead of future customer needs-creating application services that help the world’s leading organizations deliver their critical business apps faster and with the highest levels of flexibility, security, performance, and quality.

But our success isn’t driven solely by what we do. We also care deeply about how we do it. At F5, our culture is how we live, every single day. And it’s producing extraordinary results-not only for our customers, but also for our employees. We understand that your life is about more than just work, so we are committed to a culture that supports your whole life.

This position is for an engineering manager in the Engineering Shared Infrastructure Services (ESSI) team. The ESSI team is a critical team that is not just responsible for the cloud and data center infrastructure supporting our internal Engineering Labs around the world.

We are looking for a thought leader and people manager experienced in Cloud infrastructure, Data Center Infrastructure, DevOps and SRE practices to help lead the way as we seek to reinforce and build on a culture of continuous improvement and increasing collaboration and efficiency. This role will empower engineers, recruit, hire and mentor their directs while also acting as a coach/guide, provide feedback to help their group of engineers grow, and expand their professional development. The position will need to outline expectations, support your directs in their scrum teams, offer support and assistance where necessary for them to succeed in their job.

Primary Responsibilities

• Act as an advisor and coach to directs on their work and team dynamics

• Performance manage directs to enable engineers to operate at their highest potential

• Sourcing, interviewing and hiring candidates for open positions, onboarding, guidance to staff, conducting performance evaluations, developing performance improvement plans, and taking corrective action as needed

• Align engineers to the corporate and oraganization’s strategy

• Recommend changes to policies and establishes procedures that affect immediate organization(s)

• Evaluates and reviews new technologies on their applicability to product architecture and design

• Presenting, evangelizing and communicating with partner teams and stakeholders

• Getting feedback and establishing a continuous improvement process

• Collaborate with partner teams

• Coordinate between team members in the US and Hyderabad

• Represent the Engineering Lab Infrastructure Services (ELIS) team in Hyderabad

• Model F5 Behaviors

• Performs other related duties as assigned

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job.  However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Change management

• In-depth knowledge of on-prem and public cloud technology

• Knowledge on Arista EOS, Juniper JunOS, Cisco IOS/NX-OS, Dell Networking OS

• Deep understanding of L2/L3 networking, routing protocols, and high availability systems

• Experience with virtualization platforms Network connectivity: OpenStack, VMware, Hyper-V, KVM

• Familiarity with Linux, Windows, and systems engineering

• Scripting and automation knowledge (Python, Bash, Perl)

• Exposure to cloud platforms Networking (AWS, Azure) will be add-ons

• Experience with storage technologies Network Configurations

• Knowledge of Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a plus

• Knowledge and proficiency in software engineering methodologies

• In-depth knowledge of on-prem data center infrastructure environments

• Engineering and application delivery expertise

• Demonstrated ability to guide and coach engineers

• Demonstrated ability in mentoring and developing direct reports

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

• Demonstrated excellence in written communications

• Duties are performed in a normal office environment while sitting at a desk or computer table

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or other technical degree

• 13+ years software infrastructure management experience

• 5+ years leading or managing a team

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, geographic locations, and market conditions, as well as to reflect F5’s differing products, industries, and lines of business. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.

You may also be offered incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. More details about F5’s benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits. F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice. 

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination.  F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting [email protected].